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ANNOTATED GAME
A fun checkmate?
palaisipan_23 (1792) vs. another_ken (1709)
Annotated by: another_ken (1200)
Chess opening: QGD Slav defence (D10)
palaisipan_23 (1792) vs. another_ken (1709)
Annotated by: another_ken (1200)
Chess opening: QGD Slav defence (D10)
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This game is remarkable for its checkmate. See if you can figure out mate (win for Black) in 7 from White's 22. Kh2 without looking! This game gave both players a lot of joy. | |
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1. d4 |
This game is remarkable for its checkmate. See if you can figure out mate (win for Black) in 7 from White's 22. Kh2 without looking! This game gave both players a lot of joy. |
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1... d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 Bf5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Nf3 e6 6. h3 Nbd7 7. Bd3 |
(Given 6. h3 is this in keeping?) |
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7... Be4 |
(This ensures that any exchange of minor pieces leaves Black with the favourable position -- a black pawn on e4 suits Black very well.) |
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8. O-O Be7 9. Bxe4 Nxe4 10. Nxe4 dxe4 11. Nd2 e5 12. Nxe4 |
(A shameless pawn grab! The pawn on e4 was fairly poisonous. The knight is in no man's land...) |
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12... f5 13. Nc3 O-O 14. b3 |
(I wouldn't recommend dxe either.) |
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14... f4 15. Qg4 |
(Perhaps Qf3 is better, stopping f4-f3 for the time being.) |
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15... Rf6 16. Bb2 Rg6 17. Qf5 |
(Qf3 is definitely better here.) |
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17... Qc7 18. d5 |
Not sound. This frees c5 for Black's knight. |
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18... Rf8 19. Qd3 |
(Again not sound. With ..Knc5 to come, White concedes a tempo. As it happens, White cannot prevent his demise -- there is a clear mating plan for Black now.) |
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19... Nc5 |
(This is not so much to develop as to free d7 for Black's queen.) |
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20. Qd2 f3 |
(Displacing the pawn on g2, and weakening the pawn on h3) |
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21. g3 Qd7 22. Kh2 |
[PUZZLE: Without looking, can you figure out mate in 7 moves?] |
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22... Qxh3+ |
! |
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23. Kxh3 Rh6+ 24. Kg4 Rh2 |
White resigns here, for it is checkmate upon ..h7-h5# |
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